a plan unfolds

I am excited to share with you all that our visas are ready to be picked up in Houston and we've purchased our tickets to Lima.  I'll be flying out of San Antonio next Friday, Sept. 10.  It's a little hard to believe that after all of our waiting and (attempted) patience our missionary venture to Peru is becoming a reality!  I am ready to dive head-first into the radical change and challenge that awaits.

"See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."
-from "Giving," in The Prophet, by Gibran Khalil Gibran ... read the entire poem here